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<p>Being our first attempt at iGEM, we are sincerely thankful to everyone who had been involved with our project since its inception. Their support and guidance were the only reason that we could move forward inspite of various glitches and complete it successfully.</p>
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<br>We have a Bio Safety Committee in our institution. It consists of members from various departments who ensure that safety guidelines as per Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India norms are followed meticulously. Our team members received a safety training from professors and lab assistants from this committee to manage risks from accidents that may occur while working in the lab. During this training, we were taught about a range of topics right from sterilization techniques to emergency procedures that need to be followed. It was insisted that we were gloves, especially while handling carcinogens; that all the plates be decanted before discarding them. We carried out all lab procedures as taught by our department specialists. 
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<h1>DR. JAYASREE & DR. JOHANNA RAJKUMAR</h1>
 
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<p>Jayasree Ma'am, the Head of the Department of Biotechnology, and Johanna ma'am, the Dean, have been our strong pillars of support throughout this journey. When we were initially taking our baby steps towards iGEM, they were on our side, constantly motivating us and have always pushed us to do better. They are the backbone of our team.</p>
 
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<p>We are sincerely thankful to all the teachers, scholars and lab assistants from our department for imparting us with knowledge, providing us with safety training and helping us in lab at all times of the day (and night).</p>
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Our lab is a level 2(moderate risk) safety level environment. That is, we have open benches and biosafety cabinets.
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For our project, we are making E. coli Dh5 alpha produce an antimicrobial peptide.
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We will be testing its antimicrobial activity against <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> and <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>. All these organisms fall under the Risk group 1 organisms as listed in the iGEM website. We worked with them in separate bio safety cabinets only.
 
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<p>As our primary PI, Babuskin sir has been right with us from our initial brainstorming sessions, where he was instrumental in deciding our project, to the final stages. With numerous friends in the scientific community, sir put us in contact with a lot of scientists and research scholars, who helped us mould our idea to what it is today.</p>
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<p>Gayathri ma’am has been more than a PI to us. For anything gone right or wrong, she was the first person that we all would contact and report to. She has basically been with us with every step of the way. Hence it wouldn’t be too much to say that she knew us the best and thus guided us the best.</p>
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<p>We are sincerely thankful to Carolina for being our mentor. She has helped us in many things like troubleshooting our results, finalizing our project idea, preparing our Power Point for the Giant Jamboree  and so on. Thank god for Skype and Gmail, we were showered with her constant care and support. We are definitely looking forward to meeting her at Boston.</p>
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<p>Also an advisor, Sriram mainly dealt with trouble shooting our results during the course of the project (hence called the handy-man of the team). He was also responsible for some serious brainstorming sessions that helped us to eventually finalize our project idea.</p>
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<p>Although all of us worked hard day and night to complete  our project,  Vijay, Shravan and Sai Shyam were in charge of planning the work schedules well ahead and ensuring that everything runs smoothly. Rakshana and Roja on the other hand never failed to ensure that we were all adhering to the lab rules. They made sure that the lab was always kept tidy. </p>
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<p>The human practices team was led by Preethi who diligently worked hard herself but made sure that the other HP team members -Akash, Ramya , Srimathi,  Veenah, Marcia and Nishka worked even harder. They were responsible for organising  Biofair and various workshops that helped spread awareness about iGEM, synthetic biology and our project. Apart from this, this team also managed the collaborations.</p>
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<p>Completing our inter lab study was not an easy task. The perseverance of Sreya, Ashwin, Saranya and Vasavi helped us finish and submit our results on time. They were in charge  of managing the inter lab study and did their task with utmost responsibility.</p>
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<p>Our wiki page was a result of amalgamation of inputs and ideas of many people. Nishka was the creative head, Marcia and Veenah the content writers, Akash the critic, Preethi the editor and Yaseen and Vishal the computer science and coding masterminds, without whom we could never have bought our page to life.</p>
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<p>For any team to smoothly proceed with the project, obtaining funds is a crucial task. Hence  the task of fishing funds had fallen upon all of us. But the title of head fund fisher must definitely go to Sheetal Maria Rajan, who apart from managing our Ketto campaign was also responsible for gaining the team a significant percentage of the total funds. Preetha helped Sheetal out in raising funds for the project.</p>
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